From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-07-21T06:37:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing POST and GET variables simultaneously?

Eep!  Holy Wrong Newsgroup, Batman!

It did include the stuff that was meant to go here, though, which
I hereby cut to.

Sorry about that.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:47:37AM +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> class CGI
>     def query_params
>         params = {}
> 
>         ENV['QUERY_STRING'].split("&").each { |p|
>             k, v = p.split("=")
>             params[CGI.unescape(k)] = CGI.unescape(v)
>         }
> 
>         params
>     end
> end
> 
> ..that does the trick. God, I love Ruby. May I never stray back into 
> PHP-land again :)

May your wish come true. :)  And that solution will indeed work
most of the time.  However, to be perfectly compliant with modern
protocols, you need to split on either '&' or ';'.  And it'd be
better to use the query_string method than to directly access the
environment variable:

class CGI
     def query_params
         params = {}
 
         query_string.split(/[&;]/).each { |p|
             k, v = p.split('=')
             params[CGI.unescape(k)] = CGI.unescape(v)
         }
 
         params
     end
 end

-Mark